Wednesday 26 January 2011

Infographics


A quick mock up poster of some of the different hair colours and pantones found within a group of a 100 people surveyed in Graphic Design. After creating the previous simple graph i decided that i could pantone match a 100 peoples hair this way i could get much more colour information and produce a fair more complex info graph. The only criticism i personally had about this graph is that the whole poster was about colour but i used black, white and grey as i found working with black, ginger, blond and brown was a bit boring... so i had to go away and rethink my colour scheme.

This is the 2nd little info graph i produce this was influence by looking at a tubemap. All the coloured lines represent a catagory of pantone as a lot of people had brown hair but they necessarily didn't have the same brown pantone, this graph gives you the idea of how many pantones each hair colour has. This was done on a small scale of 50 people i surveyed to save time and to make sure it work well as a visaul. I didnt like the typeface i used on this mock up somehting with a bit more weight would of been better. More pipes would be needed in the actaul 100 person survey poster as well and i might not be able to fit all the legs on it properly. Also an improvement would be to colour match each pipe to its corresponding pantone. 

This is a pie chart i produced each segment represents a specific pantone and its sized to specifically to how many people i found to have had this specific pantone in their hair, this made it easy to see which pantones are commonly found. I found that there were many brown pantones but within those brown pantones i found more of one specific pantone then another and this graph helps to represent that more clearly. The only criticism i had was that in illustrator i couldnt prefectly match the pantone swatches to the segments this meant i basically just choose a colour as close as i could find, so to improve this i decided to move onto photoshop which had the full pantone library's. 

Thursday 20 January 2011

hair colour charts

After collecting some simple information on a 100 different graphics students about what hair colour they had i could quickly make a little moch up graph just to give me an idea what the pie chart would look like if i were to construct an more complicated infographics chart.


After collection more detailed research into hair with pantone and colour catogories i started to draw up some ideas for more complicated info graphs this was an initail idea before i went onto work on illustrator/photoshop. I wanted to catogorise each commonly found pantone according to size depending on how frequently it was found in my surveys.


This was an idea for a much more simple graph where i would represent hair colour by symbols on a graph according to their pantone on the x axis. This idea was never produced as i couldnt find anything to measure it against on the y axis, this graph would also of been very confusing so i decided against making it in illustrator after a couple of failed attempts. The failure of this graph pushed my ideas more towards working with pie style charts as they were very simple and represented my complicated results well.


In my research i found that each person commonly had more then 1 pantone, i had the idea to represent a poster full of pie charts which would break up and show the percentage of pantone in each persons hair. Every pie chart on the poster would represent a person and there would be a 100 on the poster. This idea was also dismissed after i realised the amounts of pantones involved in colour matching a 100 people was rather vast... I also realised the colours would be very dull and it would be hard to tell the segments apart. I then realised after surveying enough people that the secondary or tertiary pantones found in hair was more of a guessing game and not accurate to read at all.



Some initial ideas for statistical graphs, these were some starting points but the changed a lot while experimenting with them on photoshop/illustrator.


more idea's of types of statistical graphs i could produce and what symbols i could use as substitutes for the colours.


Wednesday 5 January 2011

Hairstyle ideas

After drawing out some hairstyles i threw it onto photoshop and coloured them in and tried to get a bit more texture out of them. i decided to dismiss the idea of working with a 100 different hairstyles as drawings as mr bingo i discovered has done it already. 


From these hair drawings i decided to take a more infographics approach to my project, so i started simplifying things down and looking at colour trends in hair


Some really early on idea's, see sketchbook to follow the development.